Your Noon Briefing: Graphic design festival, Romanes Media, etc

BEGINS The Lighthouse design and architecture centre, in Glasgow: “Graphic Design Festival Scotland is an international event which promotes creativity, innovation, collaboration and challenges ways of thinking through a programme of workshops, talks, panel discussions, exhibitions, competitions, music and urban murals.

“The festival promotes the best of international graphic design and visual communication and aims to inspire and educate through active engagement. Networking and socialising play a key role in the festival and we aim to build relationships and networks across the world.”

The festival gets underway, in earnest, from Monday – as detailed here.

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ENTRIES are being invited by the organisers of an annual competition celebrating the best of hospitals radio.

The deadline for entries into this year’s Hospital Radio Awards is the 15th of next month.

A SCOTS magazine celebrating beers, wines and spirits has been shortlisted in an UK-wide awards competition celebrating the best of ‘independent’ magazine publishers.

White Light Media’s Hot Rum Cow has been shortlisted in the category, ‘Front cover of the year – consumer’, in this year’s Independent Publisher Awards run by the Professional Publishers Association (PPA).

Also nominated is the Glasgow-headquartered media and marketing magazine, The Drum – in several categories.

And Scotland-based Matthew Ball is also shortlisted, this time in the ‘designer of the year’ category.

FROM yesterday’s Herald newspaper: Bob Wyllie, former BBC Scotland reporter and then a communications manager, has been appointed senior special advisor for the new leader of Glasgow City Council, Frank McAveety.

WRITES Andrew McKie, in today’s Herald: “… one of the most obvious disadvantages of journalism, when compared with biography or history, is that it’s not always easy to see the big picture when you’re in the thick of it.”

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